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“It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.”

Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms

“As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.”

“My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.”

Character Serious Deny Flaws Character Flaws

Author:Andy Rooney

“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”

Heart Causes Break Cry Thousand Hundred Flaws Weeping Lear Cordelia

Author:William Shakespeare

“Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.”

Vision Ego Flaws

Author:Tennessee Williams

“I'm not perfect, but those flaws make an interesting person.”

Persons Perfect Interesting Faults Flaws Not Perfect I'm Not Perfect

Author:Mary Frann

“Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.”

“A book's flaws make it less predictable.”

Book Flaws Predictable

Author:Janet Fitch

“You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.”

Knows Long Real Artist Intimacy Flaws Real Artists

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.”

Feels Character Weakness Flaws Adore My Best Friend

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.”

Use Desire Order Culture Civilization West Western China Arise Tendencies Reform Flaws Western Civilization Western Culture Nationalistic

Author:Liu Xiaobo

“I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.”

Mother Suffering Flaws Hopeless Pollyanna

Author:Bill Ayers

“In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.”

Real Guy Humanity Fall Wine Falling In Love Real Life Flaws Dine I Fall In Love Don't Fall In Love

Author:Rosemarie DeWitt

“Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.”

Men Looks Shows Bigs Sides Fantasy Twenties Flaws Bangs Entourage

Author:Johnny Galecki

“I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.”

Ifs Trying Believe Matter Hard Character Care I Believe Interesting Focus Reader Hero Series Don't Care Relate Plot Flaws Villain Intricate

Author:Jeff Abbott

“We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.”

Trying Believe Mistake Journey Plenty Flaws Believe In Me

Author:Ezekiel Emanuel

“You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.”

Reality Streets Appearance Flaws

Book:Diane Arbus: revelations

Source: Diane Arbus: revelations

“Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.”

Feels Looks Character Acting Flaws Imperfection Exploring Storyteller Flawed

Author:Danny Huston

“I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.”

Writing Kind Whole Flaws Rhetoric Posture

Author:Barry Hannah

“After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.”

Ifs Way Mind Stills Matter Stories Values Novel Sick Blind Flaws Rough Finishing Edits

Author:Leslie Jamison

“The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.”

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